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Article: "Re-building" American Dream requires tool belt, hammer, tenacity: franchise founder finds "hands-on" approach aids long-term entrepreneurial vision.(Spotlight On Success)
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- Franchising World
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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About nine years ago, in my mid-50s 50s and in the midst of my "semi-retirement," I embarked on a mission to design and build a way to restore the American Dream of owning a business. My goal was to establish a franchise concept that would be within the reach of hard-working, every-day people; something that was inexpensive to start and easy to manage--something that was as simple as making a sandwich.
When I was only 20 years old, I owned my own vacuum cleaner company. Over the next 30 years, I owned a beauty salon, a car dealership, a small construction company, a janitorial business and a landscape company. So when I turned 55, I reflected on my own ...